Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) Nude per l'assassino (original title)

Director:

Andrea Bianchi

Writers:

Andrea Bianchi (story)
Massimo Felisatti (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 August 1975 (Italy)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor....

Plot Keywords:

Abortion | Modeling | Helmet | Model | Motorcycle

Cast

Edwige Fenech	...	Magda Cortis
Nino Castelnuovo	...	Carlo Bianchi
Femi Benussi	...	Lucia Cerrazini
Solvi Stubing	...	Patrizia
Amanda	...	Gisella Montani
Franco Diogene	...	Maurizio Montani
Lucio Como	...	Police Commissioner
Erna Schurer	...	Doris
Gianni Airò
Silvana Depreto
Achille Grioni	...	Procuratore
Giuseppa Meschella
Filippo La Neve	...	Dottore
Claudio Pellegrini	...	Mario
Wainer Verri
Rodolfo Zola

Directed by
Andrea Bianchi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Andrea Bianchi		story
Massimo Felisatti		screenplay

Original Music by
Berto Pisano

Cinematography by
Franco Delli Colli

Film Editing by
Francesco Bertuccioli

Production Design by
Sergio Palmieri

Makeup Department
Marcello Di Paolo	....	makeup artist
Romana Piolanti	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Carlo Papa	....	production manager
Guglielmo Simonetti	....	production manager
Sergio Simonetti	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daniele Sangiorgi	....	assistant director

Art Department
Elvio Fossali	....	property master
Rossella Guarna	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Domenico Pasquadibisceglie	....	sound
Giuseppina Sagliano	....	boom operator

Camera and Electrical Department
Giovanni Baroni	....	still photographer
Elvidio Buratini	....	assistant camera
Giovanni Carbonera	....	key grip
Adolfo Cerea	....	gaffer
Enzo Tosi	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Adriana Manici	....	seamstress
Clary Mirolo	....	seamstress

Other crew
Gianni Zangarelli Ciuffini	....	production secretary
Luciano Comolli	....	production secretary
Claudio Cuomo	....	production assistant
Silvestro De Rossi	....	accountant
Antonietta Gianesin	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• Fral Spa

Distributors

• FRAL Cinematografica (1975) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Golden Era Film Distributors (GEF) (1979) (UK) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Blue Underground (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Cecchi Gori Home Video (2005) (Italy) (DVD)
• Shameless Screen Entertainment (2008) (UK) (DVD)
• Blue Underground (2012) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray)

Also Known As:

"Nude per l'assassino" - Italy (original title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 | UK:X (cut) | UK:18 (DVD rating) | Italy:T (VHS rating) | Italy:VM18 | Hong Kong:III

Filming Locations:

Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Company:

Fral Spa

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: As Maurizio (Franco Diogene) enters the bathroom, wearing just his underwear, the camera and a crew-member can be seen in the mirror to the left of him.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Spaghetti West (2005) (V)

Winner of the Germaine Greer 'Equality' Award 1975

Strip nude for Your killer must be, for me, the most outrageously sexist giallo ever made. Fair enough, you've got to expect a fair amount of it in these movies(or else you'd be let down) but Andrea Bianchi runs with misogyny ball so far that he leaves the park, gets in a taxi with it, goes to the airport, and throws the ball on a plane to some uncharted island in the pacific.

Which, by the way, makes this film quite entertaining.

After someone kills a doctor who's botched abortion killed his patient, the film shifts focus to a modelling agency and all the suspects/victims therein. Specifically, we get to focus on Magda (Edwige Fenech), a photographer...and Carlo, who is also a photographer. Carlo takes the biscuit as the most sexist Italian movie hero I've laid eyes on. We first see him sexually harassing a young girl (and succeeding!), then he hooks up with Edwige, seemingly immediately moving in to her apartment, moaning about his coffee, and reading the paper while ignoring her. Edwige, for her part, doesn't seem to mind being called stupid, being shouted at, or even throttled. Ah, the innocence of young love.

Oh, and there's some murders too. Our motorcycle-helmeted killer starts working his way through the cast, and I won't really go into much detail about it as it's a giallo, but if you want to see an extremely fat man trying it on with a model, then this is the film for you. Our chicks are there for eye candy, except for the boss of the agency, so of course that makes her a lesbian.

Weirdly, I expected LESS from the director of The Zombie Dead, but here, at least on a technical level, he seems to do a bit better. There's some nice Argento/Bava style cinematography, and the music is what you'd expect. Violence wise it's touch and go, with some nice gore effects but not much carnage. However, clothes fly off without much prompting so you've not got much to worry about there.

Fun stuff...not a top giallo, but I can't help but be impressed.

And, as usual, the ending is jaw-droppingly stupid, and morally questionable.